Jean Antoine Nollet, 1700-1770, French abbé, physicist and electrician, professor of experimental physics in the College of Navarre, was a member
of the London Royal Society and of the Academy of Sciences at Paris. This work was originally published in 1770. The edition
of 1784 consists of the
third edition of the first, and the
second edition of the other two volumes. In Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue it is placed with the books on
Turning. In the 1815 and later catalogues it is reclassified under
Experiments.